Immanence, transcendence, and being in Husserl's idea of phenomenology

Jacques Taminiaux

pp. 47-75

in: John Sallis, Giuseppina Moneta, Jacques Taminiaux (eds), The Collegium Phaenomenologicum, the first ten years, Berlin, Springer, 1988

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to clarify the concepts of immanence and transcendence which play a decisive part in Husserl's foundation of Phenomenology. We shall base our investigation upon the five lectures delivered at Göttingen in 1907 under the title The Idea of Phenomenology,¹ which were first edited by Walter Biemel in 1950. In addition to the text of the lectures, Biemel's book includes a summary of them written by Husserl for his own use. In this paper I shall employ both the text of the lectures and the text of the summary.

Cited authors

Husserl Edmund

Biemel Walter